God is speaking to me lately about the deeper things in Him. Those places that you really can't access except through pain and denial of flesh. That place where all you care about is hearing from God. you don't care about food or family or friends, sometimes you don't even care about gathering with other people. You just know that you have to get a hold of God. You have to somehow touch Him in a way that before was impossible for you to access. In Psalm 42 the Psalmist David describes this very thing, he says as the deer pants for the water, Oh God my soul cries out to you! He was desperate for God! This wasn't some weak double-minded prayer. This was a serious, soul baring, gut wrenching prayer that reached the throne of God. He even said my tears are my bread and drink. In other words, fasting and prayer and crying out to God was his portion in that hour.
He describes his experience with God during this rough and depressing time as being taken over by God's waterspout, a waterspout is a furious and wild and power thing that appears in water and is like a hurricane or a tornado and if you get in it's way, you would get hurt for sure. But, David says that God's waterspout is calling unto the deep places in him, in other words God is calling him deeper and it might be a treacherous place, it might be a dangerous place, you might have to lose some things, you might have to lose some people, but come deeper says the Lord, come follow me and I will make you fishers of me. Come follow me into the deep places, into places that no one has ever seen before.
Oh God!!! take me deeper! Take me to a place where you whisper secrets to me. Where you show me things that I need to know. Not just for myself alone but for my brothers and sisters in the body of Christ. For the edification of your church. I listen to a song by Jonathan Helser entitled, Endless Ocean and bottomless sea and in the song he describes how God is endless, no matter how much you see or know of Him, He is like endless ocean and bottomless sea and every time I hear that song, it touches me in such a profound way. Because that is so true! None of us could ever exhaust His goodness. We could never ever see and know and hear all of Him. We could never ever even begin to touch the surface of who He is. His greatness and His majesty.
You know sometimes God has to hurt us to help us. Sometimes when we are going into the deeper things of God we come to realize that we can't be surface people if we are trying to know more of Him. We can't be complacent and lazy about the things of God and expect Him to reveal His secrets to us. The word tells us that the Apostle Paul had more revelation from God than any other person but guess what? he also had a thorn in the flesh, that never left him, even though he prayed to God for it to be removed and God's reply was, my grace is sufficient for thee. Would to God that we would toughen up in the spirit and realize that God allows things to come into our lives to reveal the deeper things that cannot be revealed any other way than through suffering. Ooh wee that isn't a popular subject for sure but it is the truth and the word of God bears that out.
Sometimes we just need to be reminded of who He is! My God! He is the great Creator! The Author and the finisher of our faith! He is The friend that sticks closer than a brother and has promised to never leave us or forsake us. He is calling out to us, calling out and saying come deeper! Come deeper! There are things that I want to show you says the Lord. Things that others have not seen or heard. When the prophet Isaiah saw the Lord, He said I saw the Lord and He was high and lifted up and His train filled temple! Glory to God! He fell as a dead man, the scripture says! Oh glory to God! He calls us into the deeper things in Him today.
It is time to stop playing church and get real. Get real with Him. Seek Him and His greatness. Lay aside fleshly desires and say Lord I come to you, asking for more of you and less of me. I seek your face today. I seek your goodness today and your mercy and your grace. But, today God I really want to go deeper and understand more of you. It is time, it is time. Stepping out on that water, takes faith, and determination to stay focused on Him, no matter what comes or goes. Laying aside any weight that is trying to hold us back. Reaching for that high calling, which is only found in Christ Jesus.
Here is the link to the Helser song I mentioned.
https://youtu.be/qlBugZ2xEIs
Priscilla Hinds
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